March 9th is our annual Maple Syrup Day!* Join the CRS community to experience every step of making syrup from tapping the trees to bottling. This is a great activity for the whole family and has become a CRS tradition. *Date may change, due to weather conditions.

Will you be in the Big Apple on April 13th Join us for the Spring board meeting and stay afterward for the New York Reunion event. Please note, this is the annual New York reunion, which has previously been held in January. More details available soon. Save the Date. Location to be determined.

LAJF is excited to gather the ladies of Camp Rising Sun together to discuss everything Camp. We look forward to discussing the 30th Anniversary of Clinton campus, women's leadership in our careers and at LAJF, and will hear from a key note speaker. Come to enjoy your fellow Camp Rising Sun alumnae, join the conversation, and have a mimosa.

Join us for a beautiful autumn weekend with your fellow CRS alumni from October 12 to 14 at Camp for our alumni retreat. The weekend starts on Friday at 6 PM and ends on Sunday at 1 PM. Enjoy escaping the city for the fall weather at Camp among friends helping work on important projects at both campsites. There is a suggested donation of $25 to help cover the cost of meals, however, no one will be turned away for inability to pay.

This summer we will be sending seven teenagers to Camp Rising Sun from California! You are warmly invited to a send-off party with our 2018 campers and their families.

As our campers are from different parts of California, we will be having two simultaneous events: one in the Bay Area and one in Los Angeles. Both parties will be from 2pm-5pm on Saturday, May 26th. Join us in congratulating our newest campers, sharing your camp stories, and maybe even singing a camp song or two!

If you're in Northern California: The event will be hosted by Lila Mack ('15) and her family in Palo Alto.

If you're in Southern California: The event will be hosted by alumnus Eric Beckman and his wife Jaynee in Los Angeles.

If you are unable to attend in person but would be interested in joining a videoconference, let us know!

Messiah Church and Lutheran Social Service of MN at the Center For Changing Lives build ridges that help individuals connect as human beings and create community. The Vision of LSS is that all people have the opportunity to live and work in the community with dignity, safety, and hope. The Center for Changing Lives offers a web of interconnected services for easy access – breaking down barriers between providers and resources and building a pathway to prosperity. The Food Pantry is a large part of that vision and relies on the support of volunteers to help provide a response to the many challenges faced by peoplein the Phillips West neighborhood.

Help is needed from 8:00 AM until noon on Saturday, April 28. Duties include setting out food items, bagging groceries, assisting people from the community who come, preparing & serving food, and helping with clean up (bilingual volunteers would be a great help).

Camp is beautiful in the Spring! The trees are blooming, the pond is thawing, and summer is in sight. Join the CRS community to experience every step of making syrup from tapping the trees to bottling. This is a great activity for the whole family for what has become a CRS tradition.

After the board meeting, come mingle with the board members and local New York alumni over drinks and snacks. Please note that the NYAA reunion, which has been held in January in the past, is now in April. Use the entrance located on 41st Street.

Join us at CRS on October 14, 2017 in Rhinebeck for our Fall Board meeting. We welcome you to stay the whole weekend for our Fall Retreat, October 13-15, for volunteer projects, apple-picking and Camp athmosphere!

Registration and pricing

$200.00 - Individual Package (Meals and a bed in a shared tent for the whole weekend)

$450.00 - Two Adults (Meals and a private tent for 2 people)

$500.00 - Family Package (Meals and accommodation in a tent, 2 adults and children 12 and under)

$125.00 - Meals Only: Whole Weekend

$50.00 - Saturday Only Pass including meals (Libby and Mandy Day)

Schedule

(Schedule is subject to change)

Friday, July 21

5:00-6:00 PM: Guest check & Cocktails in the Camper’s Lounge

7:00 pm Dinner

8:15 PM- Board Games in the Dining Hall

Sleeping accommodations at Camp or at local hotel/B & B (your choice). A block of rooms are reserved at the newly renovated Rhinebeck Motel at $120 per night. Please call 845-876-5900 or email RESERVATIONS@RHINEBECKMOTEL.BIZ and mention you are with Camp Rising Sun.

Saturday, July 22 - Libby & Mandy Day

8:00-9:00 AM: Breakfast at Camp

9:15 AM-12:00 PM: Attend LAJF Board Meeting at Camp, pool will be open

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM: Lunch & Libby & Mandy Day Program

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM: Instructions & Projects

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM: SST (Self-structured Time), pool will be open

6:30 PM- 7:30 PM: Dinner

8:30 PM- 10:30 PM: Alumni Council

Sleeping accommodations at Camp or at local hotel/ B & B (your choice). A block of rooms are reserved at the newly renovated Rhinebeck Motel at $120 per night. Please call 845-876-5900 or email RESERVATIONS@RHINEBECKMOTEL.BIZ and mention you are with Camp Rising Sun.

Notable reunion year, Student, Committee Member discounts

20% Discount for active committee members. Email alumnireunion@lajf.org to receive the code if you are currently serving on a committee.

50% Discount for all full-time students! If students use the discount code, they will be asked to volunteer 3 hours of their time at the reunion. Please email alumnireunion@lajf.org to receive the code.

How to Get There

It is a two hour drive from New York City. If you are driving and have spare seats and would like to carpool, please let us know in the registration form.

By train:

The nearest train station to camp is Rhinecliff. There are trains to Rhinecliff from Penn Station (NYC). It is a 15 minute car ride from the train station to camp. We will provide rides from Rhinecliff to camp on Friday for selected train arrivals in the afternoon. In addition to filling out the registration form, please email alumnireunion@lajf.org if you wish to be picked up from the train station. We will also coordinate rides to get to the train station on Sunday.

We will be raising the tents on the hill and uncovering the pool. We also have special projects and need many hands to paint, help construct an Adirondack shelter, repair banisters and more! In return for your hard work will be delicious food from our new smoker, good conversations and a campfire Saturday night.

We would like to invite all alumni and friends of CRS to join us from the 11th through the 14th of March, and to give a hand with building the new shelter on tent hill and other spring-time projects. There will be in- and outdoor projects, syrup-making and instructions! All in all, a spring-break with all the camp-spirit we remember.

If you are up for an extended weekend of project time and fun, you can sign up clicking here. Everyone is welcome – even if you are not able to come for the entire Spring break, but just want to come up for a day or two. This event is free. We will provide food and lodging in thanks for your hard work.

We hope you are excited to show off your Camp Rising Sun t-shirt! As in the past, we are getting ready to celebrate International Camp T-shirt Day on Thursday, November 15th, along with many other summer camps around the world.

Bring out your camp t-shirt, bring back the memories and let's share a moment of great joy, across country borders and time-zones! It’s the only reunion where everyone can attend, no matter where you are!

This year Helene Mattera, the Executive Director of LAJF, has pledged to donate $1.00 for every person who wears their t-shirt and posts a picture on this event.

If you do not have your t-shirt anymore, don't worry and use your imagination, you can take part all the same!

The Louis August Jonas Foundation (LAJF) and Camp Rising Sun (CRS) have a long-held commitment to the principles of diversity, stemming from our mission. In that spirit, LAJF and CRS do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, creed, color, sexual orientation, nation of origin, gender, sex, or gender identity.